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Italian Bridge Team Wins at Olympiad

ISTANBUL, Nov. 6 - Italy won the world bridge championship for open teams on Saturday at the World Team Olympiad. Norberto Bocchi, Giorgio Duboin, Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes added one more prize to the large collection of international titles that they have won in the last six years.

The Italians beat a Dutch group made up of Jan Jansma, Louk Voorhees, Maarten Schollaardt, Bas Drijver, Sjoert Brink and Ricco van Prooijen. The Italian margin of victory was 59 imps.

Another title, the Transnational Mixed Teams, was won by a cosmopolitan group: Zia Mahmood of England, Sabine Auken of Germany, and Catherine D'Ovidio and Paul Chemla of France. In the final, they defeated a Bulgarian team by 91.

On Friday, the United States narrowly missed winning the World Women's Teams competition, losing to Russia in the final by 12.